- Exploring and refining concepts
- Mix of practical/methodical and esoteric/ impulsive to find the essence of our design ideas
- Examine, question try, test, and risk everything
- Observing and testing
- Brainstorming into more focused and solution-oriented
- Don’t rush
- Test and question its behavior
- Observe its interaction with reality
- Looking for green
- Hoe de design interacts with the world
- Use environmental constraints to make decisions
- Study its life cycle
- Look for any unintended consequences
- Minimize environmental impact
- Exploration and refinement
- Visualize through sketching
a. Sketching and illustrating: language
- Communicate the idea
- Explore possibilities
- Dialogue with yourself
- Means of conveying information
- Idea before prettiness
- DO: sketch frequently, in quantity, constantly, in different sizes, different media
- DON’T: edit yourself, be afraid
b. Forming
- Depict design in 3d medium
c. Computer-aided design
- Dialogue
- Discussing ideas with clients, designers, other people
- Take all the comments but evaluate the ideas
- Reflection
- Very important tool of design that is often neglected
- Focused reflections, indirect reflections, unconscious reflection
